April 26th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Several spamming messages have been observed by Trend Micro Lab that are targeting social network users, we used in the traditional spam message to find advertising content directly on the email but the reported cases seems to be slightly different as scammers are hosting the advertising content on hacked website under their control, If the [...]
Posted in E-Mail Security 
Tags: Fake emails, Fake Messages, foursquare, linkedin, MySpace, Pinterest, Scams, Spam, Trend Micro 
No Comments » April 23rd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua By the increasing number of smartphone malwares it is important to install an application that will monitor all activities on your device, this will get you an instant notification for suspicious applications or programs and help you to avoid malicious apps at an early stage. If you are using Android operating system for your smartphone [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Tools Tags: Android, App Permission Watcher, Application Security, Smartphone 1 Comment »
April 23rd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New malicious attack that are targeting Iranian key oil facilities have been reported today by BBC, on Sunday a computer virus have infected the network to make all infrastructure disconnected from the internet. While important information and data in the oil production was not affected by the attack, website for the oil company is still [...]
April 20th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Trend Micro have released a new report that are focusing on mobile system malicious applications for the first quarter of 2012, the document state discovering approximately 5,000 new malicious Android application which poses a big threat for Android users. Android smartphones infection scenario described by Trend Micro is pretty simple, victim opens a compromised website [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Malwares, Vulnerabilities Tags: Android, Malware Research, Report, Security Report, Smartphone, Trend Micro No Comments » April 18th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua After Flashback operation where Doctor Web security software lab reported a 600 thousands infected Apple mac, new press release have been issued to another zombie network which contain more than one million hosts. Win32.Rmnet.12 is the malware used in this attack and it targets windows based operating system to install backdoor and further stealing sensitive [...]
April 17th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua CONFidence gaining momentum, so get ready for two days filled with lectures and extreme attractions! The presentations will be divided into four theme groups (2 each day) with more than 30 speakers, unpublished materials, workshops and a special X-traction point game, which is something you haven’t seen before! Schedule template contains four separate thematic tracks: [...]
Posted in Security events, Security Training Tags: CONFidence, CONFidence2012, hacking, Hacking Conferences, Security events No Comments » April 17th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Spamming campaign have been observed by GFI security researchers that are using twitter to spread malicious links, the shortened URL leads to a fake antivirus malware that will claim several infection on victim computers. The first link is fuuut(dot)tk which will redirect any visitor to detectoptimizersupervision(dot)info that are hosting a rogue software called windows Antivirus [...]
